GANDHI'S IMPACT PANS ACROSS WORLD

Gandhiji is a goliath in today's India. He was declared the man of the millennium. The father of the nation shares his birthday with another great son of the soil, Shri Laal Bhadhur Shastri. That his ideology is still relevant has been illustrated here.

- RAVI PRAKASH TIWARI

GANDHIAN PRINCIPLES DON'T SEEM RELEGATED TO THE PAST

He has left an indelible phenomenal impact on India and other nations even almost 76 years after his demise. He not only left a hallmark on the Nehruvian state with its emphasis on agrarian India, but also forged the policies of several generations of politicians thereafter, most prominently Morarji Desai (on non-violence), Jaya Prakash Narayan (on 1947, Gandhiji had vigorously commenced to advocate the creation of linguistic states to supplant the old British administrative divisions. The birth of linguistic states at the edict of the States Reorganisation Commission in India after 1955 was very much a legacy of Gandhiji's vision.

Similarly, his prescience of village republics, Gram Swaraj, directly begot the institution of Panchayati Raj, or local self-governance in Indian village.

Gandhi's vision of swadeshi is still widely admired even today, as the government aspires to make India selfsufficient. The second iteration of Swadeshi under the name "Atma Nirbhar Bharat" was introduced by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the Covid time, when India was witnessing an economic predicament. Gandhi's view of socialism is more social in its approach than political.